New Delhi: Samajwadi Party supremo
Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday termed as "biggest mistake" the
decision to save UPA-I government last year over the Indo-US
nuclear deal and said had the ruling dispensation collapsed,
it would have brought a big change in the Indian polity.
"We were not trying to bring down the government. It
was the Left Front (which was doing so). We saved the
government and it was our biggest mistake," Yadav said
while addressing a conference here to express solidarity with
the Palestinian cause.
He said had the government collapsed in July, 2008,
it would have brought a "big change" in the Indian polity.
Yadav claimed that his party men were not in favour of
saving the government after Left Front withdrew support. "But
some members of my household and junior leaders in the
hierarchy said we should support UPA," he added.
The SP chief however, explained that the party`s
support was extended to the UPA government in the national
interest as India lacked uranium to produce nuclear power.
"The support was based on the issue of national interest. Even
now, our support is strictly issue-based," he added.
Accusing the UPA government of ignoring the ideals of
Jawaharlal Nehru on foreign policy, the SP chief said India`s
first Prime Minister had said that country should raise its
voice against human rights violation anywhere in the world.
"Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee could not
raise his voice against the US and Israel for human rights
violations...the present Prime Minister would also not say
anything against them," he added.
PTI
